To: laplata
What word works for you when a plane is removed from service? Sending it to Davis-Monthan AFB for storage in the desert doesn’t qualify for “scrapped” but maybe “grounded” would be the better term. Bottom line, the plan was to make it no longer available for the CAS mission at which it excelled.
55 posted on
09/23/2014 1:32:51 PM PDT by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: T-Bird45
Whatever. You can CYA but it is not ‘retired”.
57 posted on
09/23/2014 1:37:20 PM PDT by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: T-Bird45
The more than 300 A-10s in service would have been grounded.
95 posted on
09/23/2014 2:12:10 PM PDT by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: T-Bird45
How about, ‘Mothballed’...
158 posted on
09/23/2014 6:59:50 PM PDT by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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